If your SE is an FDHD (has a 1.44mb high density floppy) hands down the easiest way to transfer is to score a USB floppy disk drive from eBay or maybe even from someone here in swap. If you have a new Mac, even OS/X Lion still supports HFS on floppies. Simply drag the items from the vintage Mac disk image to the formatted floppy and you're off and transferring. 800k images are a little bit trickier. Learn how to use the dd command in terminal (if you're a Mac user) to transfer those. Otherwise, I'm fortunate enough to have an old Apple IIgs and I can use ADTPro to transfer 800k Mac images from my iMac to the IIgs and they work fine in my 800k compact Macs.
In short, you'll need a floppy drive of SOME kind to make it easier. Noodling with networks and internet connections can be frustrating on old Mac systems (6,7,8 even 9). Find a cheap old Powerbook (mid to late 90's vintage) with a floppy disk drive. System 9's pretty easy to network to your big computer. transfer the disk images to the Powerbook via local network then write the disk images from the Powerbook. But still, easiest 'n cheapest way is buy a USB floppy disk drive. Keep your eyes open at thrift stores for boxes of both 1.44mb and 2DD (double density) floppy disks. On Sep 3, 7:54 pm, [email protected] wrote: > I just got a vintage Mac SE, and would like to copy some software onto > it from FTP site. How do I go about taking something from a modern > computer and putting it on an older one? Most of the tutorials just > mention changing the Operating System and not how to transfer games > specifically programmed for these vintage computers. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
